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Emotions and appraisals: can you have one without the other?
Matthias Siemer1, Rainer Reisenzein
1Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA. msiemer@psy.miami.edu
Abstract:
In his commentary on M. Siemer and R. Reisenzein (2007), B. Parkinson (2007) raised a number of important questions concerning the process of emotion inference and the scope of appraisal theories. Siemer and Reisenzein first examine the alternative explanations of their findings proposed by Parkinson and then look at the alternative "situated" view of emotions proposed by him. The main conclusion is that the issues raised by Parkinson can be dealt with by (suitable extensions of) appraisal theory.
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